Events/Belgian Waffle Ride California

Belgian Waffle Ride California

Gravel

Date

Sat, 1 May 2027

Venue

San Marcos / Del Mar, California

Countdown

May

Distance

193km

Total climb

3,050m

The self-styled "Hell of the North of gravel". Around 120 miles and 10,000 feet of paved road, loose dirt and genuine off-road singletrack, out of San Marcos on the first Saturday of May.

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The course

The route

The flagship Waffle covers roughly 193km with about 3,050m of climbing, switching between fast paved sectors, loose dirt and gravel, and brutal off-road singletrack with hike-a-bike sections. Shorter Wafer and Wanna distances share the same terrain.

Weather

Early-May, San Marcos / Del Mar

24°CTypical high

10°CTypical low

5°CColdest in 20 years

9%Days with rain

Highs around 24°C and lows around 10°C, but it has dropped to 5°C. Rain on 9% of days.

NASA POWER data, 2006-2025, the week either side of race day

2025 results

Who finishes, and how

#RiderTimeAvg speed

01Matthew Beers4h 57m 08.75s39.0 km/h

02Peter Stetina5h 06m 39.43s37.8 km/h

03Alexey Vermeulen5h 09m 44.91s37.4 km/h

Finishers

5:33:43

Median time

34.7 km/h

Median speed

Overall · 2025 results, as published by the organiser.

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Training

Training for the Belgian Waffle Ride California

We don't do generic plans. We combine deep knowledge of this race's demands with your recent training, then build a plan with you that progresses as you do.

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Intervals.icu

A surface-switching day

Typical sessions

Road power, dirt handling and hike-a-bike grit, all demanded in a single day.

Around 10,000 feet of short steep climbs that stack up by repetition, not one big col.

Technical singletrack and sand sectors that punish tired, sloppy handling with crashes and lost time.

Fuelling 60 to 90g of carbs an hour over 6 to 10+ hours, when the sector chaos makes it easy to forget to eat.

What your weeks look like

Typical sessions

Progressive mixed long rides building from 3hr toward 6 to 7hr on road, gravel and dirt.

Short steep repeats: 10 to 15 efforts of 1 to 3 minutes on steep pitches.

Dirt and singletrack handling plus hike-a-bike drills, practising dismount, run and remount on loose ground.

Event-simulation long rides at target effort with full fuelling and tyre-choice testing.

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Typical sessions

Built from your current fitness and the time you actually have

Adapts every week as Beina learns how you respond

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